Senior Brand Marketing Manager

CFA Institute; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

401(k) employer contribution

Comprehensive medical benefits

Flexible work options

Wellbeing and development programs

Job summary

CFA Institute is seeking a Senior Brand Marketing Manager to translate enterprise priorities into global brand campaigns. You will lead integrated campaigns across global markets, collaborating with Brand, Creative, Content, Media, Digital, and regional teams to drive brand relevance and business growth.

The role requires leadership across campaign strategy, activation, and measurement, with a strong emphasis on audience insight and performance data.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of relevant experience in brand marketing, integrated marketing, campaign strategy, advertising, or a related field.
• Experience leading global brand campaigns across multiple markets.
• Experience briefing and directing creative, media, and agency partners.
• Fluency in English; additional languages would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies for major global brand campaigns, defining target audiences, propositions, objectives, and measures of success.
• Lead major integrated campaigns from strategy and creative development through activation, optimization, and evaluation.
• Develop measurement frameworks that connect brand activity with sentiment and business outcomes.
• Serve as a strategic campaign partner to Brand, Product Marketing, Media, Digital, Creative, Content, and regional marketing leaders.

Skills

Brand marketing

Integrated marketing

Campaign strategy

Advertising

Creative briefing

Media planning

Analytics / data interpretation

Stakeholder management

Strategic influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or related discipline

Job description

Are you a strategic marketer who can turn enterprise priorities into global brand impact? Bring together audience insight, bold creative, smart media, and meaningful measurement—and unite stakeholders across a complex global organization—to strengthen the CFA Institute brand around the world. The Senior Brand Marketing Manager leads integrated global campaigns that build the reputation, relevance, and consideration of CFA Institute and contribute to long-term brand-led growth. This role translates enterprise brand and business strategy into programs that reach priority audiences across global markets. Working within the Global Brand Marketing team, you will collaborate with brand, creative, content, media, digital, product marketing, regional teams, and external agencies. You will use audience insight, market intelligence, and performance data to guide where, when, and how CFA Institute shows up in the market.

This position may be based in Charlottesville, New York, or London and will be supported by the Director, Global Brand Marketing.

What You’ll Do

Global Brand Campaign Strategy

Develop strategies for major global brand campaigns, defining target audiences, propositions, objectives, and measures of success. Identify opportunities to increase brand relevance, familiarity, consideration, and preference among priority audiences. Shape campaign architecture across global, regional, and audience-specific activity, balancing consistency with local market needs. Use audience research, market intelligence, brand tracking, competitive insights, and cultural trends to inform campaign decisions. Partner with Brand leadership to translate enterprise priorities and brand positioning into actionable campaign platforms.

Integrated Campaign Leadership

Lead major integrated campaigns from strategy and creative development through activation, optimization, and evaluation. Develop clear campaign briefs and provide strategic direction to internal creative teams and external agencies. Lead cross-functional teams across Brand, Creative, Media, Content, Digital, Product Marketing, and regional marketing. Make informed trade-offs across audience opportunity, creative ambition, channel strategy, investment, and delivery. Ensure global campaign platforms can be adapted effectively for regional and local markets without diluting the core strategy.

Brand Effectiveness, Measurement and Optimization

Develop measurement frameworks that connect brand activity with sentiment and business outcomes. Interpret brand tracking, audience, media, and campaign performance data to evaluate effectiveness. Use testing and experimentation to strengthen campaign performance and understanding of brand investment. Recommend changes to audience priorities, creative direction, channel allocation, and investment based on evidence. Communicate campaign results, insights, and strategic implications clearly to senior stakeholders.

Strategic Partnerships and Influence

Serve as a strategic campaign partner to Brand, Product Marketing, Media, Digital, Creative, Content, and regional marketing leaders. Build alignment among stakeholders with differing objectives while keeping campaigns anchored to agreed brand and audience outcomes. Influence senior stakeholders on campaign strategy, prioritization, creative direction, and investment. Lead relationships with key creative, media, and specialist agency partners. Constructively challenge internal and agency recommendations to strengthen strategic and creative quality.

Investment, Governance and Capability

Manage significant campaign budgets and recommend how investment should be allocated. Establish and improve campaign standards, briefing practices, governance, and ways of working. Identify opportunities to make global campaign development and activation more effective and efficient. Coach colleagues and help strengthen strategic, creative, and commercial capabilities across the team. Contribute to the continued development of campaign management as a center of excellence within CFA Institute Marketing.

What You’ll Bring

A bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience in brand marketing, integrated marketing, campaign strategy, advertising, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success developing and leading integrated brand campaigns across multiple markets and channels.
• Experience briefing and directing creative, media, and agency partners.
• Strong knowledge of paid, earned, and owned media and channel strategy.
• The ability to interpret brand, audience, and campaign data and translate it into strategic decisions.
• Experience managing significant campaign budgets and making investment recommendations.
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance long-term brand outcomes with shorter-term business priorities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including experience influencing senior leaders.
• The ability to work effectively within a complex, global, and matrixed organization.
• Fluency in English; additional language capabilities would be beneficial.

In compliance with wage transparency laws in many of the jurisdictions in which we recruit, we provide the following information regarding compensation for this position: Expected salary range in the United States: $110,000 - $150,000 per year. All salary ranges are subject to adjustment based on experience, education, and other factors relevant to the position.

Additional benefits include eligibility for an annual incentive bonus, a 12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan, and a comprehensive medical benefits package.

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